GALWAY AND SARSFIELDS star Siobhán McGrath has been named AIB Club Camogie Player of the Year, capping a memorable week in which she was included in the Team of the Year and landed the Provincial Player of the Year award for Connacht.
19-year-old McGrath was Sarsfields last-gasp hero in their historic All-Ireland final win over Slaughtneil in early March. The Tribeswomen were trailing the three-in-a-row champions as the clock slipped into injury time, and McGrath stepped up to save the day.
After excellent work out the field from her sisters Niamh and Orlaith, the latter found full-forward Siobhán, who in turn spun and rattled the net to clinch the prestigious silverware. She inspired with 1-4 of Sarsfield’s 1-8 that day.
Named Player of the Match in the semi-final win over St Vincent’s, McGrath was a real driving force behind Sars, who were managed by her father, Galway All-Ireland winner, Michael ‘Hopper’ McGrath. Clodagh was the fourth sister to start in the final.
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Six a-piece from All-Ireland club finalists Sarsfields and Slaughtneil as Team of the Year announced
Siobhán’s recent form has been so impressive that the teenage sensation was called up to the Galway senior panel — crowned 2019 All-Ireland champions — though she hasn’t played yet due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
A PE and English student at University of Limerick [UL], she helped the to their fifth Ashbourne Cup success in-a-row earlier this year.
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These two games against top English sides are great opportunities for Tom Ahern to propel himself into the Irish squad
@Kevin Ryan: izzy, baird, conan, pendergast and timoney all ahead at this stage.
@chris mcdonnell: stopped reading at conan….
@chris mcdonnell: I don’t want to knock anyone. They’re all good players of course; but I think we know by now that Prendergast and Timoney are pretty unlikely to ever establish themselves in the Ireland side. Ahern has the potential to do so.
@Niall English: The 42 is an interesting selection to have your mid life crises on
@Niall English: conan ahead of the lot of them. Not sure about the rest though.
@chris mcdonnell: I think Baird has moved down the Irish pecking order. Not sure the reason why but it seems he has. I think Ahern will be more used in 2nd row by IRL going forward but also cover 6 ahead of Baird. I think Izzy will eventually take a starting hold on that 6 jersey. Conan is an 8 who can do a job at 6. lineout skilks wouldn’t be his strength though and that works against starting him. My feeling is POM will start v England at 6 or at least be on the bench. No doubt he’s behind many others in general play but our LO is critical to starting the 6n’s well and he’s still our best LO jumper.
@Michael Corkery: He’s only started 9 times at 6. Munster have won a grand total of 1 of those games. Putting that to one side, it’s still manifestly obvious that he should be concentrating on second row, given both his height and the number of options at blindside.
If Munster were talking about the good things they did against Leinster, it was a short talk. We need the injury list to clear up, it would be great to pick a 23 match day squad that isn’t influenced by injured players.
Don’t know why Munster are always going on about O’Mahony these days. The guy is busted flush, worn out and too old. Not his fault now. Munster have to pick Ahern ahead of him and bench him. We lost to England last year because he wasn’t at the races with the young English back row so we lost another grand slam because he wasn’t up to it.
@Jimmy Bean: i do recall doris getting grossly outplayed by ben earl in that game also, not the first time hes gone AWOL when the chips are down.
@Niall English: Mr Bean only sees what he wants to see.
@Niall English: He left VanDFl and Doris on their own to play by themselves against the English. He was benched for the South Africa tour so it’s just not me who thinks he’s past it.
@Leonard Barry: Lotta beans on here
@Jimmy Bean: you know the French saying « No scrum, no win ». I got a similar one for the upcoming England game, « No lineout, no win ». Certainly PO’M is not as good as others around the field, but if our lineout calling and throwing is going to continue to be as bad as it has recently, the 2nd best defensive LO in the world is going to have an absolute field day. We’ll need PO’M on the bench at the very least. He can win it at the front if all else fails.